didrachm
Illustration — Horned head of young river-god Hipparis left, wearing taina; KAMAPINA before Nymph Kamarina, holding up her veil in her left hand, reclining right, head left, on swan swimming left; waves around. The Didrachm was a coin used by the Greek and Romans. The coin was worth two drachma.
didrachm
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- ancient drachma, silver coin and Roman currency.
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- Roman Republic.
- Related practice
- silver.
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Illustration — Horned head of young river-god Hipparis left, wearing taina; KAMAPINA before Nymph Kamarina, holding up her veil in her left hand, reclining right, head left, on swan swimming left; waves around. The Didrachm was a coin used by the Greek and Romans. The coin was worth two drachma.
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Background
Background
The Romans started using the didrachm around 280 BC and stopped using it around 211 BC.
The denomination of the Didrachm was invented by the Greek. Early Roman silver coins were modeled after similar Greek currency. The weight of the Roman coin was also the same as Greek cities. The legend Romano distinguished the coin from Greek coins of the same period. The coin was equal to two drachma or a Jewish half shekel.
History
History
The first didrachm was struck by Rome in around 280 BC. Didrachms were struck until the 2nd Punic War, and they were replaced by the denarius in 211 BC. Larissa's didrachm were issued in the 4th century BC, during which they displayed art of the city's mythology and the history of Thessaly.
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scholarly publication
- A Die Study of the Silver Staters (Didrachms) of Thessalian Larissa / Studium powiązań stempli srebrnych staterów (didrachm) tesalskiej Larissy, Notae Numismaticae - Numismatic Notes, 2022
Scholarly · Crossref registry · 2022
- Cast copies of a Neapolitan silver didrachm from the Berlin coin cabinet, KOINON: The International Journal of Classical Numismatic Studies, 2020
Scholarly · Crossref registry · 2020
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- Wikidata, structured authority record Q11320126: didrachm
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- “Didrachm”, English Wikipedia, consulted as further reading
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Cast copies of a Neapolitan silver didrachm from the Berlin coin cabinet, KOINON: The International Journal of Classical Numismatic Studies, 2020Crossref registry
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